14.0% ▲ +12.0%
Higher than 82% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 12.5%
- 2016: 15.8%
- 2021: 14.0%
Share of people who use a language other than English at home.
Carabooda · Suburb / Locality
Language in Carabooda
The languages spoken in homes across the area, beyond English.
More people in Carabooda have started using a language other than English at home since 2011. While 14% of residents now speak another language, this remains well below the national figure of 22.3%. English is still the dominant language for the vast majority of the area.
Languages at home
English and the largest community languages.
English is spoken by 77.7% of people, though Vietnamese is the most common second language at 5%. While 14% of people use another language at home—which is much higher than most similar areas—about 2.5% speak little or no English.
2.5% ▼ -59.4%
Higher than 87% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2016: 6.1%
- 2021: 2.5%
Share of people who use another language at home and speak English not well or not at all. No 2011 figure — that census only asked proficiency of overseas-born residents.
Sources
- Census of Population and Housing — Australian Bureau of Statistics, 2021 (CC BY 4.0).
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Australian Bureau of Statistics. (2021). Language in Carabooda [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL50255/carabooda/topic/language